Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-01-08

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OF catbirI'S song and bobonks OF copying out for
| him certain exercises that he needed, OF taking
down the rich ana sweet unwritten melodies OF
his LAND, O. which he knew scores: OF reading Win
him the treatises on counterpoint, cannon and
fugue. II was al very simple-why should Leon
| ard disturb himself? But he did. 81 can never
have Helena moment TO myself" he exclaimed
TO Eelena's Aunt Jane.
..And why should YOU expect it," said Aunt Jane:
And at the glance he gave her, Aunt Jane VINO had
pu: brown paper on thousand BUMPS ior = MN I'M
ceived all his childish condolences had saved MN
nom countless punishments and loved him as II
good enough TO eat, ana you meant to do IT,"
Il have round out have found out Aunt Jane 1as
his head in the good old maids lap.
well. wei, my dear boy" she said with her
fingers on his clustering locks. 1--WE all have time
10 lind that OIt, Thank goodness, II you don't
ind out anything worse For, to save my soul, I
can't make out what Helena means II she doesn't
mean 10 marry this Italian
'.NarTy him - cried Leonard In white amaze
| meut. ''Wl;y. she can't. She is mine, am hers,
we-we-We have been as sood as married. lever since
.:she'Il cry salt tears for her folly yet. said
| Amt Jane, grfmly-her customary volublllty
Leonard went away on fire 70 his finger-tips, and
when Helena capped her enormities by going up
noon with Giuseppe. 10 hear Faust, the first
person n the house that her eyes rested on was
Leonard, white and radiant himself. with the play
Oi his passions. Nothing 10 him was all the light
| and shadow OF that ideal drama OF love. and
| youths and joy and grief; he saw none of IL. he
heard none of It, as he saw Helena grow ruddy or
grow pale smile or weep with satisfaction In the
] song and the singer. and when he observed people
wondering at her vivid spanish beauty, and heard
| them inGuring who she was. he ground his teeth
| with rage again to think she was subject to such
| remark and accompanied by Giuseppe.
! Leonard at the opera.' She said. as they
| brushed by him coming out. "Don't tel me after
| this that the tonic Sofia represents senseleSs
hiereglyphics to you: Now. you are coming home
| with us
'Gong home with you:, he exclaimed, in the
| same suppressed tone, and with namming eyes.
| Glow dare you speak to me so! am never going
! homer"
81 think you WILL" she said with the smile that
disclosed the little teeth ike kernels Of white corn
| In that sweet and wholesome mouth of hers, ''1Or
| l viii sing you the .Aya Maria and the Jewel
| Song" She was making promises 10 vacancy, for
| Leonard was not there: but ne had carried away
| her TOSes-her bunch of great yellow roses-ln his
| hand.
| he came, all the same. With the evening, al
though delaying iii tle church bells rang nine.
Helena was alone. and there were no lights In the
room other than those shed from the soft sea-cOal
nre-buJ that CLEAN iiu.iced the deep claret tint
OF her velvet bodice ami the gold-f0wered gauze
scarf she wore. TIL she looked like Venetian dom
celia waiting 20 be painted by ferdenone. she was
/ waiting Tor Leonard only: she had been watching
for hm and pacing Tie ItOOr in Il suspense lest she
hati gone leo lar, that was growing beyond her
bearing. as turn after turn she stopped at the
window and no shadow on the garden Walk.
And when he came I'm, as he always did, without
| kh9Ihllg she was standihg just beside the uV2f,
and her arms were about his neck, and their lips
met together, and there Was no more doubt or
d. TknG>S bet Neen them.
40 Think She said. by and by, ''yOur being
troubled about poor Giuseppe. with wife whom
ne adores at home with their six children
pG not spe1k Of IT, he Oh: 1T is all
hardly be CAD OF II as opening my eyes and giving
you to me at last
.'1nd yOu didn't know you cared for me till /
praciiced scales with singing Elaster:"
Ibid ycu:'
.Nhy. knew it always" she said.
Il knew you were q part or E.e.' he cried. 81
knew you were vital TO me. could not dream OF
existence without you. l cannot dream OF exist
ence without you now. / would not live one hour
il You were out OF the world. Oh, Helena, my
love, now awful it is that person staying can
make lie heaven OF he'll. and going can eclipse
| the sun itSel11
.'Ard would my going eclipse the SUM-" she
asked, arch1y: ARE you so different from other
men that no other woman could console yGri"n
- am different from other men. For ice there
is hut one woman in the world: the rest Shad-
owns. never thought what 1t would be TO love
| You before: you have seemed without thinking,
50 inSepardbie from myself and my lIie. Helena.
don't Know but 1 was happier before / was
happy; happier in INV unconscious content" But
with her head upon his breast, and her eyes gazing
up at hini-eyes pUrpe-dark as the velvet OF
heartsease petal. he knew that words were all in
| vain, that be wIs ab5orbingly and unanimously
happy nov, and that lie TIuSt make the mcSt OF ii,
i for life was TOO long Ior such bliss TO last.
And Helend-she Kept feeling that now 1t was
time 10 die-aii other moments in life would seem
| pale aud thin beside these supreme ones. ..How
! beautiful you are:" he cried. Your eyes have
lIoat IN tneln that does not bci02g to earth. and
/ Your smile is only the expression OF an inner
! beauty
| Flush, hush" she said. 'sYou never used to
! speak 10 ne So
ard perhaps never shall again. seem never
to have seen thought of it before But it is not
I Tor your beauty that love yOu. 1t would be all
the sans with me II YOU Scared and nlarred
/ But must speak now; This once must lay my
to lac. Unjust look at il myself. ( never knew It
| TN this wear began Singular phelo1lenon-this
/ speikaile delicious d0lGr.-
! IND The maiden 20 whom this fervid love was
! rendered slept upon the clouds by night, and
seemed 10 walk Il track of sunbeamS into heaven
Itself hy Gay. All things shared her happiness the
people in the house and Oh the street. the postman
~ ;he tramp. il WIS never cloudy weather when
she Hung that sIIl..e their way. 1t seemed
| goot - stafd Old fOia whose neyday was long
over. ike aunt Annabie or Aunt Betty, to such
lrrad.Jing bliss in the world; and II was good for
all who cTuSoe-: her path: she Wantes; THEM TO be
CAD OF her Siadnes-, ana she pited tne.n SO much
! I'D thlnr they could not have that gladness Tor
( Their Own that she could lot do enough Toy
/ them.
| rae lovers would probably have been married at
| on" md hot the death vi HslenS Uncle. with
whom she had always lived, and TIE discovery OF
! bia III oSe3t estate, leaving her the three anGts
! vi h No one but herself on whoa to rely, neces-
} sarily postponed matters little. She made ar
rang llt1if 1T once 30 take the scholars LETT after
SiEnor Gulaeppe's de2arture, and she played the
OK Il for AZ early thurc h, and received q salary
: Tor singing in tie choir or later one. And she
! stipulated before She marr;ed TO be allowed 10
/ years engage nent added 10 her HE. When she
was used 20 remember t afterw3rd 1t seemed only
/ like one long, bright summers day.
| Yet sweet a. That Was, the married life was
SweetST. Leonard prOapered in his procession: and
TIE goodness, oi Two OF three grateful patients
died t last, gave him the IieIns to buy Cragsnest
a small estate upon The mountain side which they
| hld long coveted IL was trifie too far away
/ from the tow IA Tor physicians convenience but
he n0G his Ofdce hours 81 town. and had succeeded
We'll That he could AFFORD indifference as TO the
/ accessibility OF his house. WHAT pleasure they
/ htd n identifying the Place. Every rose they
| planted, they plsntea together. 'Their blossoms
/ Will seem IN DC your breath" ne said.
over al t3wered the dark forest OF pines 81
| VIII never ntvc one OF them cut down." he said
I'VE have SAT beneath them 50 much that they
tnIng OF yod has gone into them Helena. When
| we are apart always feel You there as see the
| stars shining through them. There Shall be no
| change here 50 long as you are the pole-star OF
my being"
but inc earth swings to new pole-stars, she
! said lnischevously, and then repentfng the mis-
chief.
! They had the satisfaction OF children in arraup-
! ing the interior CT the house. also; this room
locked out upon u purple mountain view; it
shC2id De lifted in old gold plush and the tiles
around the fire place should he done in deepest
} Gibson J2cqUeIniLut roses This room opened on
/ t!ic rushing brook ard its stu. deep pool Tx a
u. o. ialler SKY: coio-s lighted with crystals
should De the coo. blues that doubted IL they were
I Lot greens, like -Enid's
splendid Sill % foreign looms
/ Nbere LIE q shoaliDg tie lovely blue
/ PLACED INTO green
This room, leading into the study should be full
OF ftOwcTS ana gay with summer chintz: and the
LIBRARY Shoj.l1 haze the velvet messy shadows OF
Snnit woods The aunts were coming 10 live with